Lewiston Commission Final Report: “Several Opportunities Might Have Changed the Course of Events” (But Don’t Ask For Solutions)
After nine months of subpoenaing witnesses and documents and listening to a wide range of testimony during sixteen public hearings, the Independent Commission To Investigate the Facts of the Tragedy in Lewiston issued its final report on August 20th. The 215-page report, while substantive in details that led to the failure to stop Robert […]
Face Off – How George Erik Marquardt Compares To Breaking Bad’s Fictional Walter White
My latest book, LETHAL DOSES: The Story Behind the Godfather of Fentanyl was released Tuesday, August 27, 2024. It’s the true story of the man DEA called “the best and most dangerous clandestine chemist” the agency ever encountered. George Erik “Squeak” Marquardt, a high school dropout and self-taught “chemistry genius,” became a professional criminal at age […]
LETHAL DOSES takes readers inside the twisted world of the man who brought Fentanyl to America
On a cold afternoon in February 1991, a frightening new drug hit the streets of New York City, a synthetic narcotic marketed in packets labeled “Tango & Cash.” As police scrambled to warn heroin users of the danger, the overdose victims began piling up in hospital emergency rooms and county morgues across three states. As […]